Species profile—Asclepias curassavica (red-head cottonbush)
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Apocynaceae → Asclepias curassavica (red-head cottonbush)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Scientific name
- Asclepias curassavica L.
- Common name
- red-head cottonbush
- WildNet taxon ID
- 17935
- Alternate name(s)
- blood flower
wild ipecac
West Indian ipecacuana
red head cotton bush
red head
red cotton
false ipecac
cotton bush
bloodflower milkweed
bloodflower
bastard ipecacuana
redhead cottonbush
butterfly weed - Conservation significant
- No
- Confidential
- No
- Endemicity
- Introduced
- Pest status
- Environmental Weed
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=17935.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
